The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             do evil;’ and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful
  2 Intro|            always been, the enemy of rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric
  3 Intro|            rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric but truth; he will not falsify


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|             education in grammar and rhetoric; the double explanation


Euthydemus
    Part
  5 Intro|              two other sciences: (1) rhetoric, if indeed this ancient
  6 Intro|              Athens as professors of rhetoric and of the art of fighting
  7 Intro|     Politicus, and the caricature of rhetoric in the Gorgias.~The characters
  8 Text |       greatest masters of the art of rhetoric discoursing.’ ‘And what
  9 Text |       example, are not gymnastic and rhetoric and money-making and the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 10 Pre  |       Metaphysics, the latter in the Rhetoric. Neither of them are expressly


Gorgias
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 11 Intro|         subjects. Under the cover of rhetoric higher themes are introduced;
 12 Intro|           this is the genus of which rhetoric is only one, and not the
 13 Intro|            question is asked—What is rhetoric? To this there is no answer
 14 Intro|              use for the teaching of rhetoric.~The characters of the three
 15 Intro|        Although he has been teaching rhetoric all his life, he is still
 16 Intro|              unwilling to admit that rhetoric can be wholly separated
 17 Intro|             knows by experience that rhetoric exercises great influence
 18 Intro|            to explain the puzzle how rhetoric can teach everything and
 19 Intro|              the author of a work on rhetoric, and is again mentioned
 20 Intro|           fascinated by the power of rhetoric, and dazzled by the splendour
 21 Intro|     Archelaus being miserable, or of rhetoric being only useful in self-accusation.
 22 Intro|           but favours the new art of rhetoric, which he regards as an
 23 Intro|       himself or of others; and that rhetoric should be employed for the
 24 Intro|          hearing Gorgias display his rhetoric, but of interrogating him
 25 Intro|            be summed up as follows:—~Rhetoric treats of discourse; but
 26 Intro|     discourse; in what way then does rhetoric differ from them? Gorgias
 27 Intro|             as arithmetic, geometry, rhetoric. But still Gorgias could
 28 Intro|           arithmetic was the same as rhetoric. Even in the arts which
 29 Intro|              What then distinguishes rhetoric from the other arts which
 30 Intro|              words? ‘The words which rhetoric uses relate to the best
 31 Intro|               neither can you define rhetoric simply as an art of persuasion,
 32 Intro|       limitation, and he now defines rhetoric as the art of persuading
 33 Intro|             sorts of persuasion does rhetoric effect in courts of law
 34 Intro|         asking:—About what then will rhetoric teach us to persuade or
 35 Intro|            illustrates the nature of rhetoric by adducing the example
 36 Intro|         anything by the power of his rhetoric; not that the rhetorician
 37 Intro|             the art of self-defence. Rhetoric is a good thing, but, like
 38 Intro|              as a part of the art of rhetoric. But he who has learned
 39 Intro|              must be a just man, and rhetoric is a just thing. But Gorgias
 40 Intro|          opposite of this, viz. that rhetoric may be abused, and that
 41 Intro|          answer.~‘What is the art of Rhetoric?’ says Polus. Not an art
 42 Intro|           gratification. ‘But is not rhetoric a fine thing?’ I have not
 43 Intro|           have not yet told you what rhetoric is. Will you ask me another
 44 Intro|            under the same class, and rhetoric has still to be distinguished
 45 Intro| distinguished from cookery. ‘What is rhetoric?’ asks Polus once more.
 46 Intro|             of cookery, of medicine; rhetoric is the simulation of justice,
 47 Intro|            And,~Cookery : medicine : rhetoric : the art of justice.~And
 48 Intro|            and purge away his crime. Rhetoric will enable him to display
 49 Intro|            true that the only use of rhetoric is in self-accusation, and
 50 Intro|            as you say, is the use of rhetoric in courts of justice. But
 51 Intro|            case; although you admire rhetoric and despise sophistic, whereas
 52 Intro|              want of your flattering rhetoric, I shall die in peace. For
 53 Intro|           and discord, dialectic and rhetoric or poetry, are so many pairs
 54 Intro|               That poetry is akin to rhetoric may be compared with the
 55 Intro|            to Gorgias’ definition of rhetoric (Philebus; compare Gorg.),
 56 Intro|           and in the proposed use of rhetoric as an instrument of self-condemnation;
 57 Intro|           clothes or disguises which rhetoric and public opinion have
 58 Intro|             to their own faults; the rhetoric of self-love is always pleading
 59 Intro|         Socrates would have them use rhetoric, not in defence but in accusation
 60 Intro|           And we call to our aid the rhetoric of prayer and preaching,
 61 Intro|          speech? What is feeling but rhetoric? And if rhetoric is used
 62 Intro|         feeling but rhetoric? And if rhetoric is used on one side only
 63 Text |              the art which is called rhetoric than to dialectic.~POLUS:
 64 Text |          which you profess?~GORGIAS: Rhetoric, Socrates, is my art.~SOCRATES:
 65 Text |             me ask you, with what is rhetoric concerned: I might ask with
 66 Text |              me in like manner about rhetoric: with what is rhetoric concerned?~
 67 Text |         about rhetoric: with what is rhetoric concerned?~GORGIAS: With
 68 Text |          GORGIAS: No.~SOCRATES: Then rhetoric does not treat of all kinds
 69 Text |     Certainly not.~SOCRATES: And yet rhetoric makes men able to speak?~
 70 Text |      SOCRATES: Then why, if you call rhetoric the art which treats of
 71 Text |            you not call them arts of rhetoric?~GORGIAS: Because, Socrates,
 72 Text |           such action of the hand in rhetoric which works and takes effect
 73 Text |             justified in saying that rhetoric treats of discourse.~SOCRATES:
 74 Text |          come within the province of rhetoric.~GORGIAS: You perfectly
 75 Text |              your meaning to be that rhetoric is an art of this latter
 76 Text |            to call any of these arts rhetoric; although the precise expression
 77 Text |             which you used was, that rhetoric is an art which works and
 78 Text |         Gorgias, you call arithmetic rhetoric.’ But I do not think that
 79 Text |           you really call arithmetic rhetoric any more than geometry would
 80 Text |            of my answer:—seeing that rhetoric is one of those arts which
 81 Text |          quality in words with which rhetoric is concerned:—Suppose that
 82 Text |             Gorgias, the truth about rhetoric: which you would admit (
 83 Text |            things do the words which rhetoric uses relate?~GORGIAS: To
 84 Text |            conceive to be the art of rhetoric; and you mean to say, if
 85 Text |              I am not mistaken, that rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion,
 86 Text |             know any other effect of rhetoric over and above that of producing
 87 Text |       persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric.~SOCRATES: Then hear me,
 88 Text |         speak, and which is given by rhetoric; although I have a suspicion
 89 Text |         persuasion which is given by rhetoric, and about what? But why,
 90 Text |             Now I want to know about rhetoric in the same way;—is rhetoric
 91 Text |         rhetoric in the same way;—is rhetoric the only art which brings
 92 Text |           Then arithmetic as well as rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion?~
 93 Text |            Very true.~SOCRATES: Then rhetoric is not the only artificer
 94 Text |          Seeing, then, that not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but
 95 Text |           one: Of what persuasion is rhetoric the artificer, and about
 96 Text |             I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion
 97 Text |              sort of persuasion does rhetoric create in courts of law
 98 Text |         gives belief.~SOCRATES: Then rhetoric, as would appear, is the
 99 Text |            what we really mean about rhetoric; for I do not know what
100 Text |              you the whole nature of rhetoric. You must have heard, I
101 Text |          asked what is the nature of rhetoric, which always appears to
102 Text |       Socrates, if you only knew how rhetoric comprehends and holds under
103 Text |         physician just by the use of rhetoric. And I say that if a rhetorician
104 Text |              and power of the art of rhetoric! And yet, Socrates, rhetoric
105 Text |         rhetoric! And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any
106 Text |          same argument holds good of rhetoric; for the rhetorician can
107 Text |           the power; he ought to use rhetoric fairly, as he would also
108 Text |           were saying at first about rhetoric. And I am afraid to point
109 Text |             holds of the relation of rhetoric to all the other arts; the
110 Text |           other arts, but the art of rhetoric only, and yet to be in no
111 Text |            he can acquire the art of rhetoric? If he is ignorant, you
112 Text |           you who are the teacher of rhetoric will not teach him—it is
113 Text |           you be unable to teach him rhetoric at all, unless he knows
114 Text |            reveal to me the power of rhetoric, as you were saying that
115 Text |            bad and unjust use of his rhetoric, that is not to be laid
116 Text |            who made a bad use of his rhetoric—he is to be banished—was
117 Text |            Gorgias, it was said that rhetoric treated of discourse, not (
118 Text |            heard you saying so, that rhetoric, which is always discoursing
119 Text |              might make a bad use of rhetoric I noted with surprise the
120 Text |              making an unjust use of rhetoric, or of willingness to do
121 Text |             you are now saying about rhetoric? What! because Gorgias was
122 Text |            unable to answer: What is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Do you mean what
123 Text |            what, in your opinion, is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: A thing which,
124 Text |              experience.~POLUS: Does rhetoric seem to you to be an experience?~
125 Text |             gratify others, must not rhetoric be a fine thing?~SOCRATES:
126 Text |            Why do you ask me whether rhetoric is a fine thing or not,
127 Text |             not as yet told you what rhetoric is?~POLUS: Did I not hear
128 Text |              I not hear you say that rhetoric was a sort of experience?~
129 Text |          POLUS: Then are cookery and rhetoric the same?~SOCRATES: No,
130 Text |            or no this is that art of rhetoric which Gorgias practises
131 Text |          thought of his art, but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of
132 Text |          Gorgias, the whole of which rhetoric is a part is not an art
133 Text |              an art:—another part is rhetoric, and the art of attiring
134 Text |             what part of flattery is rhetoric: he did not see that I had
135 Text |               Whether I do not think rhetoric a fine thing? But I shall
136 Text |           shall not tell him whether rhetoric is a fine thing or not,
137 Text |             first answered, ‘What is rhetoric?’ For that would not be
138 Text |             What part of flattery is rhetoric?~POLUS: I will ask and do
139 Text |             What part of flattery is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Will you understand
140 Text |            you understand my answer? Rhetoric, according to my view, is
141 Text |              you mean by saying that rhetoric is the counterfeit of a
142 Text |              to explain my notion of rhetoric, and if I am mistaken, my
143 Text |              as cookery : medicine : rhetoric : justice.~And this, I say,
144 Text |           have told you my notion of rhetoric, which is, in relation to
145 Text |              mean? do you think that rhetoric is flattery?~SOCRATES: Nay,
146 Text |              is not a fool, and that rhetoric is an art and not a flattery—
147 Text |            where is the great use of rhetoric? If we admit what has been
148 Text |           one answer.~SOCRATES: Then rhetoric is of no use to us, Polus,
149 Text |             own relations, and using rhetoric to this end, that his and
150 Text |          greatest evil. Then, Polus, rhetoric would indeed be useful.
151 Text |            For such purposes, Polus, rhetoric may be useful, but is of
152 Text |              him who wanted to learn rhetoric, and did not know justice,
153 Text |            assembly, and cultivating rhetoric, and engaging in public
154 Text |             Then poetry is a sort of rhetoric?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES:
155 Text |            have discovered a sort of rhetoric which is addressed to a
156 Text |             do you say of that other rhetoric which addresses the Athenian
157 Text |              with the admission that rhetoric is of two sorts; one, which
158 Text |           have you ever known such a rhetoric; or if you have, and can
159 Text |           this end he should use his rhetoric—all those consequences are
160 Text |             always; like that art of rhetoric which saves men in courts
161 Text |       extremity of danger, just like rhetoric. Yet his art is modest and
162 Text |              not use the true art of rhetoric or of flattery, or they
163 Text |            you ignorantly fancy that rhetoric is a perfect thing, and
164 Text |     sophistry is as much superior to rhetoric as legislation is to the
165 Text |             no powers of flattery or rhetoric, I am very sure that you
166 Text |              few or of the many: and rhetoric and any other art should


Ion
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167 Intro|              contained in his art of rhetoric. Even more than the sophist


Menexenus
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168 Pre  |       Metaphysics, the latter in the Rhetoric. Neither of them are expressly
169 Intro|        Aristotle, who quotes, in the Rhetoric, the well-known words, ‘
170 Text |     excellent mistress in the art of rhetoric,—she who has made so many
171 Text |              in music, as she was in rhetoric. No wonder that a man who
172 Text |        learned music of Lamprus, and rhetoric of Antiphon the Rhamnusian,


Meno
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173 Intro|              merely instruct them in rhetoric or impart to them ready-made


Phaedo
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174 Intro|           may satisfy the demands of rhetoric? What is that pain which


Phaedrus
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175 Intro|              the Dialogue is love or rhetoric, or the union of the two,
176 Intro|          study philosophy instead of rhetoric, and then he will not mislead
177 Intro|          true art is truth’; whereas rhetoric is an art of enchantment,
178 Intro|           see therefore that even in rhetoric an element of truth is required.
179 Intro|          illustrations of the art of rhetoric; first distinguishing between
180 Intro|             by dialectic, and not by rhetoric, of which the remains are
181 Intro|     absurdities of Polus and others, rhetoric has great power in public
182 Intro|             taught in the schools of rhetoric; it is nearer akin to philosophy.
183 Intro|       derived his eloquence not from rhetoric but from the philosophy
184 Intro|           learnt of Anaxagoras. True rhetoric is like medicine, and the
185 Intro|           such an art, is the art of rhetoric.~I know that there are some
186 Intro|            masters who are the gods. Rhetoric has a fair beginning in
187 Intro|          Phaedrus treated of love or rhetoric. But the truth is that Plato
188 Intro|         false or conventional art of rhetoric; secondly, love or the inspiration
189 Intro|         division; fourthly, the true rhetoric, which is based upon dialectic,
190 Intro|              reappears throughout is rhetoric; this is the ground into
191 Intro|              an example of the false rhetoric; the first speech of Socrates,
192 Intro|   illustration of the higher or true rhetoric. This higher rhetoric is
193 Intro|           true rhetoric. This higher rhetoric is based upon dialectic,
194 Intro|     philosophy the technicalities of rhetoric are absorbed. And so the
195 Intro|             the conventionalities of rhetoric; secondly, of disinterested
196 Intro|            ideas. Lastly, the art of rhetoric in the lower sense is found
197 Intro|               The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism,
198 Intro|         escaped from the trammels of rhetoric), seems to be that the two
199 Intro|          text for his examination of rhetoric, he characterizes it as
200 Intro|              criticism on the first. Rhetoric is assailed on various grounds:
201 Intro|     principles. But dialectic is not rhetoric; nothing on that subject
202 Intro|             the endless treatises of rhetoric, however prolific in hard
203 Intro|              The names dialectic and rhetoric are passing out of use;
204 Intro|      degenerating into sophistry and rhetoric? We can discourse and write
205 Intro|              extant remains, insipid rhetoric is far more characteristic
206 Intro|              Phaedrus is to satirize Rhetoric, or rather the Professors
207 Intro|             rather the Professors of Rhetoric who swarmed at Athens in
208 Intro|      rhetoricians. The profession of rhetoric was the greatest and most
209 Intro|            the latter. The spirit of rhetoric was soon to overspread all
210 Text |            will be the harvest which rhetoric will be likely to gather
211 Text |          good.~SOCRATES: But perhaps rhetoric has been getting too roughly
212 Text |             speaks falsely, and that rhetoric is a mere routine and trick,
213 Text |           question.~SOCRATES: Is not rhetoric, taken generally, a universal
214 Text |           you have only heard of the rhetoric of Nestor and Odysseus,
215 Text |            at Troy, and never of the rhetoric of Palamedes?~PHAEDRUS:
216 Text |           will only attain an art of rhetoric which is ridiculous and
217 Text |           deceived, and in which has rhetoric the greater power?~PHAEDRUS:
218 Text |            suggestive to students of rhetoric.~PHAEDRUS: In what way?~
219 Text |            not be that famous art of rhetoric which Thrasymachus and others
220 Text |             we are in the dark about rhetoric.~SOCRATES: What do you mean?
221 Text |              to be found in books of rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Yes; thank you
222 Text |            have to say of the art of rhetoric: have you anything to add?~
223 Text |           What power has this art of rhetoric, and when?~PHAEDRUS: A very
224 Text |              to define the nature of rhetoric, and consequently suppose
225 Text |          fancy that the whole art of rhetoric has been taught by them;
226 Text |            Socrates, that the art of rhetoric which these men teach and
227 Text |              and how the true art of rhetoric and persuasion is to be
228 Text |           far as there is an art, of rhetoric does not lie in the direction
229 Text |         PHAEDRUS: Explain.~SOCRATES: Rhetoric is like medicine.~PHAEDRUS:
230 Text |           the nature of the body and rhetoric of the soul—if we would
231 Text |             any one else who teaches rhetoric in earnest will give an
232 Text |              of the so-called art of rhetoric, or am I to look for another?~
233 Text |            is what the professors of rhetoric do actually say, Socrates.
234 Text |            do not mind going so far, rhetoric has a fair beginning here.~
235 Text |           you can speak or act about rhetoric in a manner which will be
236 Text |           play is played out; and of rhetoric enough. Go and tell Lysias
237 Text |           will not be satisfied with rhetoric, but that there is in him


Philebus
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238 Intro|             implying that the art of rhetoric has a real sphere of practical
239 Intro|           Admit, if you please, that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest
240 Intro|            admits of a higher use of rhetoric.~Reasons have been already
241 Intro|          have heard Gorgias say that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest
242 Intro|          their place. The flowers of rhetoric and poetry have lost their


Protagoras
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243 Intro|         false, but of the old art of rhetoric and the new science of interrogation


The Republic
    Book
244 2    |              there are professors of rhetoric who teach the art of persuading


The Sophist
    Part
245 Intro|              not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty
246 Intro|             of words, the teacher of rhetoric, the professor of morals


The Statesman
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247 Intro|     connected, not like the love and rhetoric of the Phaedrus, by ‘little
248 Intro|         sketched out, and the art of rhetoric is based on the division
249 Text |          must clearly be assigned to rhetoric.~STRANGER: And to what science
250 Text |       SOCRATES: Very good.~STRANGER: Rhetoric seems to be quickly distinguished


The Symposium
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251 Intro|         manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry, the playful
252 Intro|      Socrates and a foil to him. The rhetoric of Agathon elevates the
253 Intro|            and himself a despiser of rhetoric, is proved also to be the
254 Text |          head of the great master of rhetoric, which was simply to turn


Theaetetus
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255 Intro|             opinion is proved by the rhetoric of the law courts, which
256 Intro|            opposed as philosophy and rhetoric, and as conversant respectively
257 Text |  discontented with themselves; their rhetoric fades away, and they become


Timaeus
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258 Intro|           how the forms of logic and rhetoric may usurp the place of reason